Under the slogan "Healing the heart, entertaining the mind" (which is taken from the novel "Celestina" by Fernando de Rojas), tomorrow at 21 p.m. on the stage Between the Churches of the Curtain of the 33rd City Theater, the Big Band concert of Radio-Television of Serbia "Mimo od Budva" will be held. ".
With this musical event, the festival, the city of Budva, and colleagues with whom he once performed as a member of this band, pay tribute to the legendary Montenegrin and European jazz artist Nikola Mim Mitrović. As pointed out by Dragoslav Fredi Stanisavljević, the first trumpet of the Big Band and its responsible editor, Mimo Mitrović (1947 - 2010) is one of the biggest and most important representatives of jazz in the former Yugoslavia. "The 'Mimo od Budva' concert will be the exclusive premiere of the compact disc of the same name, which contains seven compositions. Those compositions are a retrospective of what Mimo recorded for the last thirty to forty years with our Big Band of the then Radio Belgrade, of which he was a member for a period. There are also two compositions on it that we subsequently recorded, which were composed in his honor - one is 'Blues For Mimo', the composer and arranger is Ivan Ilić, conductor of the Big Band, and the other is "Mimo from Budva, a ballad written by Duško Gojković in the year when, unfortunately, we lost Mim Mitrović, and after whom this compact disc is titled", says Stanisavljević, emphasizing that this concert has a deep emotional meaning for all of them.
"It is a dedication not only to an exceptional jazz musician and colleague from whom we learned, with whom we had the privilege and honor to perform, but also to a wonderful man, a great gentleman, a gentleman and a friend, as Mimo was, which is why we still miss him today ". The importance of the Budva Festival, which will present to the audience numerous artists and significant achievements from the region in all segments of its programs until August 30, is confirmed by an exceptional European award - starting this year, the Grad Theater bears the EFFE (Europe for festivals - Festivals for Europa) label, which they win festivals for their artistic commitment, involvement in the local community, and European and global context.
According to director Milena Lubarda Marojević, it is of great importance for Grad Teatar to be present on the international stage, and the way this festival approaches the relationship between the local and the global is such that local potentials, the ambience and themes that are common to all the people of the Mediterranean, they build facilities that can run international races.
"What should not be missed from the Drama program this summer are the productions 'Hinkeman' and 'Bakhe - a brief overview of the dissolution' by Igor Vuk Torbica, then 'Blue Moon' by Boris Liješević, as well as the Bulgarian play 'Luda trava' by Margarita Mladenova, and 'Girl with strings' by Marjan Nećak. There are also 'Mister Bufo' by Daria Šivak, 'Kapital' by Andraš Urban, 'Do you remember Doli Bel' by Kokan Mladenović... and that is really only part of this year's exceptional offer", says Lubarda Marojević.
The music program is realized in cooperation with the Espressivo festival in Cetinje and the Music Academy there, it brings together some outstanding performers such as the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and several outstanding foreign soloists, such as pianist Ivan Rudin, cellist Niklas Schmidt...
The literary program, Trg pjesnika, will also present the most famous authors this summer, such as Damir Karakaš, Dževad Karahasan, Dragan Prola, Dejan Atanaacković, Marko Tomaš, Zoran Predin, Milo Lompar... who arrive at the Budva square with their new works. Poets' Square will be ceremonially closed by Slovenian writer Drago Jančar, this year's winner of the "Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša" award. There is another important and provocative program, a debate on the topic "Theatre in the time of rudeness - how to love theater in a world without mercy, love, hope...", which will bring together numerous theater and cultural workers from Montenegro and the region.
The ambitious and longest edition of the Budva festival is also confirmed by the two new theater stages to which it is taking its audience this summer - on Cape Zavala and in the amphitheater of the Stanjevići monastery.
Premiere of "Celestina"
The central event of the 33rd festival is the premiere of the dramatized version of the novel "Celestina" by Fernando de Rojas, directed by Milan Nešković, which Grad Teatar is doing in co-production with the Yugoslav Drama Theater from Belgrade, and is scheduled for July 18. Although it was first published at the end of the XNUMXth century, this novel, like all classic works, offers a number of contemporary and timeless themes, and is considered one of the greatest achievements of Spanish literature. It is a world in which money is the main ruler and the supreme god, full of false moralists, self-seekers, a world without love and empathy... and its main heroes will be portrayed by Nataša Ninković in the role of Celestine, Nikola Rakoćević, Marta Bjelica, Nikola Šurbanović, Emir Ćatović, Ljubomir Bandović, Anđelika Simić, Katarina Žutić and Maja Stojanović.
"The Hinkeman Case"
The drama program of the City Theater begins on Saturday, July 6, with the play "Hinkeman", based on the play by Ernst Toler, directed by Igor Vuk Torbica, which is performed on the new festival stage, on Cape Zavala. It is about one of the most awarded achievements at festivals in the region, a production of the Zagreb Youth Theater, which brought Igor Vuk Torbica and the cast numerous awards. Rakan Rushaidat and Ozren Grabarić were crowned with awards for the best male roles, and the play also stars Mia Melcher, Frano Mašković, Doris Šarić Kukuljica, Dado Ćosić, Petar Levantić, Jasmin Telalović, Vedran Živolić, Marica Vidušić, Nađa Perišić Radović, Milivoj Beader and Milica Manojlovic. "Hinkeman" starts at 21:20.15 p.m., and transportation from the "Olimpije" station (in the city) is provided for the audience at XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.
Dimitrija Popović's shining port
With the exhibition "Corpus Aeternum" by Dimitri Popović, the Art Program will be opened on July 10 in the Church of Santa Maria. On the occasion of the works of the outstanding Montenegrin artist, on July 16, a conversation and performance "Sacred as the presentation of the unspeakable" will be held on the Poets' Square, whose participant will be professor Siniša Jelušić, president of the City Theater Council. "Given my conviction that Luča (Njegoš), although darkened, resides in each of us, these conversations, as well as the festival as a whole, will contribute to its awakening and new presence - and isn't that the meaning of every great cultural celebration that, with this festival act, everyone in we especially strive for his organization!", points out Jelušić.
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